It looks like a happy ending in the effort to save Santa Monica’s “Chain Reaction” sculpture from the ravages of time.

The Santa Monica City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday to restore the 23-year-old sculpture of a Paul Conrad-drawn nuclear mushroom cloud, accepting $100,000 in community donations and agreeing to cover the rest of the cost with city money.

Standing in the Santa Monica civic center, the 26-foot-tall structure, made of copper, steel and fiberglass chain links and designed by Conrad, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. It’s inscribed: “This is a statement of peace. May it never become an epitaph.”